Words or Numbers | Answers

The answers to my earlier post are shown below.

One

From which Asian language does the word ’jungle‘ originate?

Answer: Sanskrit (Hindi is a close second)

jungle /ˈdʒʌŋɡl /
▸ noun
1 an area of land overgrown with dense forest and tangled vegetation, typically in the tropics:
we set off into the jungle
[mass noun] the lakes are hidden in dense jungle.

• a wild tangled mass of vegetation or other things:
  the garden was a jungle of bluebells.
• a situation or place of bewildering complexity or brutal competitiveness:
  it’s a jungle out there.

2 [mass noun] (also jungle music) a style of dance music incorporating elements of ragga, hip-hop, and hard core and consisting of very fast electronic drum tracks and slower synthesized bass lines, originating in Britain in the early 1990s.

– PHRASES the law of the jungle the principle that those who are strong and apply ruthless self-interest will be most successful: power politics reflected the law of the jungle.
– DERIVATIVES jungled adjective
– ORIGIN late 18th century: via Hindi from Sanskrit jāṅgala ‘rough and arid (terrain)’.
— Oxford English Dictionary

Two

A Scrabble board has how many squares to place tiles in?

Answer: 225

Scrabble, invented in 1931 by Alfred Mosher Butts, is a word game played on a 15×15 grid. Hasbro produces it in the US and Canada, while Mattel holds the rights for international production.

Three

In four English-speaking countries, a specific word is used to describe a particular capacity, ranging from as low as 237 millilitres to as much as 250 millilitres. What is this term?

Answer: Cup

A measure of capacity used in cooking. In the US and Canada it is equal to half a US pint, therefore 8 fluid ounces or 237 millilitres. In the UK it is 10 fluid ounces or 284 millilitres and Australia it is 250 millilitres.

Four

A triskaidecagon, or tridecagon, has how many sides?

Answer: Thirteen

In geometry, a tridecagon, also known as a triskaidecagon or 13-gon, is a thirteen-sided polygon, see image above.

Five

What ‘H’ is an alphabet containing the word ‘qoph’?

Answer: Hebrew

Qoph is the nineteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician qōp 𐤒, Hebrew qūp̄ ק‎, Aramaic qop 𐡒, Syriac qōp̄ ܩ, and Arabic qāf ق‎. It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪄, South Arabian 𐩤, and Ge’ez ቀ.

— Wikipedia